Maritime Provinces
Speech parts
1. Maritime Provinces - Noun
2. Maritime Provinces - Proper noun
Meaning
the collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
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At a press briefing Wednesday, Premier John Horgan said he has been busy building alliances with the other Maritime provinces who also have publicly funded ferry systems to make a pitch for federal government assistance.
New research is being done to learn more about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on postpartum mothers in the Maritime provinces.
By the time he was prevailed upon to enter politics, Borden had what some judged to be the largest legal practice in the Maritime Provinces, and had become a wealthy man.
The Moncton CMA has a population of 138,644 (2011), making it the largest CMA in New Brunswick, the second-largest CMA in the Maritime Provinces, and the third-largest CMA in Atlantic Canada.
Until then – except the Maritime Provinces under Dutch rule – this country was known as Sinhale, which term did not imply a particular race but all the people who lived in the Kandyan kingdom.
Depressed economic conditions in the Maritime Provinces have also resulted in de-population of those provinces in the 20th century, with heavy migration into Ontario.